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TIL that only Somalia, South Sudan, and the US have not signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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VBRvm TIL in 1977 a famous Italian Footballer attempted to prank a friend, who owned a jewelry shop, by pretending to be a robber, he was shot dead on the spot.
lAeN TIL a broken humerus of a giant fossil sea turtle was found in New Jersey in 1849. In 2012, another broken humerus was discovered, which was found out to be the other half of the exact same bone found 163 years prior.
begE TIL Canada also interred it’s Japanese citizens during WWII
78kKr TIL about the Judas Goat Technique. Judas goats are captured, sterilised, radio-collared and then re-released to associate with and reveal the location of other feral goats in the area, sparing their own lives in the process.
OGMAa TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead.